Friday, 23 December 2011

Matilah Manglish #2

This will be a pretty long post since there are so many things that need fixing, but here goes!


"if some one to be learn how to speak english He/ she have to be spread islam and preaching the name and message of Allah to non muslims who does not know about the best religion islam.


The correct version :


" If someone has learned how to speak English, he or she has to spread Islam and preach the names and messages of Allah S.W.T to non-Muslims, who do not know about the best religion there is; Islam. "


1. The sentence should start with a capital letter.


2. 'some one' means a few ones and is not the same as 'someone', which means an unspecified person.


3. 'to be learn' : there's no such thing as 'to be learn'. There's 'to learn' and 'be learned', which has the same meaning as 'be educated'. Example - "It is only proper that a gentleman be learned of some basic table manners."

4. 'english' : should start with a capital E because it is a proper noun.

5. 'He/she' : the word 'he' with a capital H is used to refer to God, so in this case it shouldn't start with a capital letter.

6. 'she have' : 'she' is a singular noun so it should be 'has' not 'have' which is used for plural nouns.

7. 'to be spread' : 'to be ____' is the form you use when declaring motive or purpose. Example - 'I try to be honest.' 
For today's sentence, the writer should have used ' to ____(insert verb)'.

8. 'islam' : Islam is a proper noun so it has to be spelled with a capital 'I'.

9. 'preaching' : The writer shouldn't have used the continuous form of this verb because the 'doer' has not yet started the action. It should be in the simple present tense; preach.

10. I've changed 'name' to 'names' and 'message' to 'messages' seeing as how Allah S.W.T. has a lot of names and messages.



11. 'non muslims' : This should be spelled as 'non-Muslims'. The word 'Muslim' is a proper noun so it has to be spelled with a capital M.


12. 'who does' : It should be 'who do' because in this sentence the word 'who' is referring to the non-Muslims and they are considered a plural noun so here we use the '(singular noun) does' and '(plural noun) do'.


13. The last part of the sentence ended a bit weirdly, in my opinion, so I altered that too. 


There's a lot that can be learnt in this post but what I would like you to do is to think of one sentence which uses the semicolon ( ; <--- this). I swear that it's just not used enough.


Remember, think before you tweet and polish before you post.
Class dismissed.

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